Word: milewski
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...been common knowledge to many Poles for months. Then last week, the Polish Communist Party made it official: General Miroslaw Milewski, 57, the man who was in charge of the security police at the time of the slaying of Father Jerzy Popieluszko last fall, had been forced to resign from both the ruling Politburo and the Central Committee. Milewski is the highest-ranking official to fall from power as a result of the pro-Solidarity priest's murder. Earlier this year, three secret-police officers were found guilty of the killing, and a fourth was convicted of instigating...
Most of the incoming Politburo members appear to share Kania's centrist position. Two important exceptions: Interior Minister Miroslaw Milewski and Construction Worker Albin Siwak, both conservatives. They are expected to ally with the old Politburo's one surviving hardliner, Stefan Olszowski, to resist further political reforms...